Writtenby a pediatrician, with the help of many foster parents, this book contains practical suggestions for those who care for foster children. It provides guidance to maximize the experience for foster families and assist them in the process. Dr. Blatt addresses many of the major and minor problems that may arise in foster care.

It offers parents help and hope, encouragement, and support. It examines what causes children to act and react the way they do, and why conventional strategies and approaches often fail to reach them. It explores and validates parents' techniques and therapeutic approaches that do succeed with disturbed children.

The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster Adopted Children

This book shows how to work successfully with emotional and behavioral problems rooted in deficient early attachments. In particular, it addresses the emotional difficulties of many of the foster and adopted children living in our country who are unable to form secure attachments. Traditional interventions, which do not teach parents how to successfully engage the child, frequently do not provide the means by which the seriously damaged child can form the secure attachment that underlies behavioral change. Dr. Daniel Hughes maps out a treatment plan designed to help the child begin to experience and accept, from both the therapist and the parents, affective attunement that he or she should have received in the first few years of life.

Hughes' approach includes:

Using foster and adopted parents as co-therapists

Teaching differentiation between old and new parents

Overcoming the perception of discipline as abusive

Framing misbehavior, discipline, conflicts, and parental authority as important aspects of a child's learning to trust.

All children, at the core of their beings, need to be attached to someone who considers them to be very special and who is committed to providing for their ongoing care. Children who lose their birth parents desperately need such a relationship if they are to heal and grow. This book shows therapists how to facilitate this crucial bond.

Primarily aimed at adoptive parents, but of considerable use to foster carers of young children, this publication approaches attachment and developmental issues arising when even the smallest child is in your care. Extremely well researched, it offers practical, sensitive guidance through the dark areas of separation, loss and trauma in early childhood. It reassures that no problem faced as a result of your child's early experiences is insignificant or undeserving of a solution. Neither is the reader patronized by assumptions that some matters should already be common knowledge. Archer sets out purposefully to encourage confidence and thereby to enable enjoyment of the young life in your care, confessing this to be the book she herself would have welcomed 20 years ago.

Focuses on building relationships with children, teaching them skills, and empowering them by teaching self-discipline and self-control. Includes creating a safe environment, learning how to handle "blow-ups," and handling transitions when a foster child moves to another placement or returns home.

This down-to-earth, practical guide to the unique hair and skin care needs of children of African heritage is specifically writtern for foster and adoptive families whomay not be of Caribbean or African descent themselves, but who are caring for children who are.

Making Cultural Connections approaches hair and skin care from the perspective of promoting the child's cultural identity and stresses open communication between caregiver and child.

Issues addressed include: Normal hair maintenance; How to avoid hair damage and how to care for damaged hair; Hairstyles for children and teens; Normal skin care; and Skin conditions, both benign and potentially harmful, that are common in people with darker skin.